Description

Description. Males: Maximal length: ca 68 - 70 mm, width of midbody PT 3.2 mm, 70 PT + telson. Body colour: uniformly white-yellowish, without particular coloration pattern, metazonites without posterior band. Head: uniformly white, pilose; cephalic suture visible. Antennae: long, extending beyond the posterior edge of PT 10 when folded backwards; antennomeres 2 - 5 light brown; 1, 6, 7 - white (Fig. 6); length of antennomeres: 1 - 0.5 mm, 2 - 2.0 mm, 3 - 2.5 mm, 4 - 1.7 mm, 5 - 1.8 mm, 6 - 0.8 mm, 7 - 0.4 mm; antennomere ratio: 3> 2> 5> 4> 6> 1> 7; tip of antennomere 7 with four short cones (Fig. 7). Eyes: black, well delineated, composed of 37 - 38 ocelli in 5 - 6 rows (Fig. 8). Width of PT: 1 = 2 = 3 <4 <5 <6 <7. PT higher than broad, ratio: 1.06: 1. Dorsal side of collum and PT 2 - 3 smooth. Crests poorly developed, flattened, 5 + 5 between the ozopores on midbody PT, anterior part of crests broad, abruptly narrowing posteriorly. Ozopores small, barely visible on PT 5 - 6, lying on crest 6 in midbody PT, missing on the last 4 PT. Paraprocts divided into two almost equal-sized dorsal and ventral sclerites (Fig. 9). Dorsal sclerite surmounted by a macroseta situated on a tiny lobe. Spinnerets: long and slender, ending with a long seta. All setae on telson dark brown, contrasting with the white background. All legs white-yellowish, long and slender, ending with a long claw. Tarsal pads very poorly developed, present on leg-pairs 3 - 12. No particular modifications on coxae of pregonopodal legs. Prefemora of legs 4 - 7 swollen. Leg-pair 9 (Figs 10, 27): coxa subtrapezoidal; trochanteral lobe (h) with a comparatively short tip and poorly developed process z. Chaetotaxy: unknown, all setae broken off. Gonopods (Fig. 11): similar to those of congeners; differ by the large coxal (cx) process g more than 3 times the length of process k; processes g and k apically rounded, not truncated as in Sinocallipus jaegeri. Femoroid (fe): with three slender, acicular (n), and one short and subfalcate (m) terminal projections. Cannula (ca): long and slender, not coiled. Females: 70 - 74 PT + telson; body colour darker, lateral sides light brownish; crests more pronounced than in males; second leg-pair unmodified (Fig. 12).

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Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Diplopoda

Order: Callipodida

Family: Sinocallipodidae

Genus: Sinocallipus

Species: Sinocallipus deharvengi Stoev & Enghoff, 2011